When the Seventh Street Bridge opens, it won't be the only change in South Stroudsburg. The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation will be immediately taking down temporary traffic lights at Broad Street at Route 611 and at the off and on ramps for Interstate 80.

MICHAEL SADOWSKI

When the Seventh Street Bridge opens, it won't be the only change in South Stroudsburg.

The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation will be immediately taking down temporary traffic lights at Broad Street at Route 611 and at the off and on ramps for Interstate 80.

The lights were placed at the Broad Street intersections to account for the traffic strain in the area because of the bridge closure for the last 18 months. With the bridge closed, Broad Street was the only direct link from South Stroudsburg to Main Street.

The lights were never meant to be permanent, according to PennDOT District 5 spokesman Ron Young.

One change that won't be immediate — the east-west streets of South Stroudsburg between Park and Broad streets won't be going back to two-way roads.

That would require action by Stroudsburg Borough Council, which hasn't acted on making any of the roads two-way again. The council doesn't have a regularly scheduled meeting again until Dec. 19, after the hoped-for bridge opening date of Dec. 14.

It would have to be done through ordinance, which needs to be legally advertised. The earliest the council likely could vote on it is the beginning of January.

In June 2011, the council made Bryant, Lenox and Robeson streets and Clermont Avenue one-way roads. If the council does decide to change the directions back to the pre-construction states, it might not be all of them.

Quarantello said residents of Robeson Street called the borough praising the new one-way formation, so it could stay one-way. Barry Street was one-way before the closing, and likely will stay one-way.

Lenox and Bryant streets, however, are two candidates for being turned back to two-way streets, since both are big enough to handle the two-way traffic.